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Upcoming Lecture: Nutrition Research and Human Experimentation at the Shubenacadie Residential School in Historical Context

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Dr. Ian Mosby, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Guelph

20 September 2013 – 7 p.m. –K.C. Irving Auditorium, Acadia University

The Confederacy of Mainland Mi’kmaq and Acadia University are pleased to announce Dr. Ian Mosby’s upcoming public lecture, “Nutrition Research and Human Experimentation at the Shubenacadie Residential School in Historical Context” on Friday 20 September at 7 p.m. His public keynote address will follow a private meeting from 10 – 2 with Elders at the Confederacy of Mainland Mi’kmaq at Millbrook First Nation. Saturday morning, Dr. Mosby will meet with Indigenous Students Society of Acadia (ISSA) at Welkaqnik, the Aboriginal Gathering Space at Acadia University.

Throughout this past summer, Dr. Mosby’s research into nutrition science, Aboriginal Affairs and residential schools made national and international headlines. Through archival research into the history of nutrition in Canada, Dr. Mosby discovered little-known documents outlining experiments conducted on Canada’s Indigenous population. One of the testing sites for this program was Shubenacadie Residential School, here in Nova Scotia. In this public lecture, Dr. Mosby will focus specifically on the testing program in Nova Scotia and its implications for understanding the history of residential schools in Canada.